Madam Abiba Nibaradun, the Upper West Regional Programme Manager of ActionAid Ghana (AAG), has indicated that access to sanitary pad by school girls was key in ensuring equity in access to quality education between females and their male counterparts. She said this was because difficulty in accessing sanitary pads by some girls, particularly at the basic level adversely affected their effective participation in teaching and learning as they missed out of school during their menstrual periods. She observed with worry that some girls engaged in amorous relationships with men against their will to get money to buy sanitary products due to lack of money to buy sanitary pads during menstruation.
Madam Nibaradun said this at Jirapa on the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day under the theme: “Together for a #PeriodFriendlyWorld”. The commemoration started with a float along principal streets of Jirapa with over a hundred people including members of the AAG’s Young Urban Women Movement and the Girls’ Empowerment and Advocacy Platforms from Basic Schools across Jirapa and Lambussie participating in the march. They wielded placards with the inscriptions “A sanitary pad to someone makes a difference.
Donate a pad and not humiliation; Don’t laugh when I soil myself with menstrual blood, support me cover up when I am stained” among others. Madam Nibaradun said her interactions with some girls in some Basic Schools in the Jirapa and Lambussie districts revealed that girls who c.
